Patents by Inventor Katsunori Takami

Katsunori Takami has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11333509
    Abstract: An information processing system acquires positional information of a vehicle, acquires positional information of a terminal device, estimates current transportation means of a user based on the positional information of the terminal device, decides information relating to a first route, along which the user moves to the vehicle, based on the positional information of the terminal device, the estimated current transportation means of the user, and the positional information of the vehicle, decides information relating to a second route, along which the user who has moved to the vehicle moves to a destination using the vehicle, based on a first predicted arrival time, the positional information of the vehicle, and positional information of the destination, and outputs first guide information for prompting the user to start moving along the first route in a form of a video or a sound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Katsunori Takami
  • Patent number: 11240237
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a storage unit configured to store identification information of a network on which an application operates, as first identification information; a connection unit configured to connect to the network; an acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information of a connecting target network via the connection unit, as second identification information; and a connection controller configured not to permit a connection of the application to the network corresponding to the second identification information in a case where the first identification information is different from the second identification information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Katsunori Takami
  • Publication number: 20190347690
    Abstract: An information provision apparatus includes a screen provision unit configured to transmit, to a terminal of the customer, screen information having first sale promotion information, and second sale promotion information that matches the preference information at a higher level than that of the first sale promotion information, a progress management unit configured to change a display mode of the first sale promotion information and the second sale promotion information displayed on the screen of the terminal, and a benefit provision unit configured to provide additional sale promotion information to the terminal when a layout of the first sale promotion information and the second sale promotion information on the screen, of which the display mode has been changed, satisfies a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi SUZUKI, Katsunori TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190340637
    Abstract: A server system includes a communication unit, a storage unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to store reservation information of a vehicle to be used by a first user, receive, from a first terminal device, coupon information showing the content of a coupon to be granted to a passenger who will share a ride in the vehicle with the first user, deliver, to one or more terminal devices, a passenger recruitment notification including the coupon information, transmits a ride-sharing application notification to the first terminal device upon receiving a request for transmission of the ride-sharing application notification from a second terminal device among one or more terminal devices, and add, to the reservation information, a user ID of a second user of the second terminal device as a user ID of a passenger who will share a ride in the vehicle with the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takashige HORI, Katsunori TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190325480
    Abstract: An information providing device includes a destination acquisition unit configured to acquire a destination, a sales promotion information acquisition unit configured to acquire sales promotion information including a sales location where sales promotion is performed, a route generation unit configured to generate a route from a departure place toward the destination by way of the sales location within a search range including the departure place and the destination, and present the route to a user, and an instruction unit configured to output an instruction to transmit sales promotion use information for using the sales promotion at the sales location, through which the route passes, to a portable terminal of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Koichi SUZUKI, Katsunori TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20190303999
    Abstract: A vehicle search system capable of searching a vehicle having an operating feel which matches, as much as possible, a driving tendency of a user. The vehicle search system includes: a storage unit which stores driving characteristic information indicating a driving tendency of a user; a storage unit which stores operating feel characteristic information indicating an operating feel of each of a plurality of vehicles; and a searching unit which compares the driving characteristic information and the operating feel characteristic information with each other and searches, among the plurality of vehicles, one or more vehicles having a degree of matching with the driving tendency of the user that exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takashige Hori, Katsunori Takami
  • Publication number: 20190285423
    Abstract: An information processing system acquires positional information of a vehicle, acquires positional information of a terminal device, estimates current transportation means of a user based on the positional information of the terminal device, decides information relating to a first route, along which the user moves to the vehicle, based on the positional information of the terminal device, the estimated current transportation means of the user, and the positional information of the vehicle, decides information relating to a second route, along which the user who has moved to the vehicle moves to a destination using the vehicle, based on a first predicted arrival time, the positional information of the vehicle, and positional information of the destination, and outputs first guide information for prompting the user to start moving along the first route in a form of a video or a sound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Katsunori Takami
  • Publication number: 20190279120
    Abstract: A reservation management system includes: a vehicle information management unit that manages vehicle information including availability information of each of a plurality of car-sharing cars and information on an on-vehicle device; a facility information management unit that manages facility information; a receiving unit that receives, as a search condition for retrieving the car-sharing car, information related to a purpose of use of a user from a communication terminal of the user; a retrieving unit that retrieves one or more candidates for car-sharing cars conforming to the purpose of use on the basis of the vehicle information and the facility information; a transmitting unit that transmits information related to the retrieved candidates for car-sharing cars to the communication terminal; and a reservation receiving unit that receives a reservation for a car-sharing car selected by the user among the candidates for car-sharing cars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Katsunori Takami
  • Publication number: 20190199721
    Abstract: A communication device includes: a storage unit configured to store identification information of a network on which an application operates, as first identification information; a connection unit configured to connect to the network; an acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information of a connecting target network via the connection unit, as second identification information; and a connection controller configured not to permit a connection of the application to the network corresponding to the second identification information in a case where the first identification information is different from the second identification information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Katsunori Takami
  • Publication number: 20190180355
    Abstract: A management system includes a processing device. The processing device is configure to: acquire schedule information indicating an action schedule of a user; specify, from the schedule information, a date and time at which the user is scheduled to use the vehicle and a date and time at which the user is not scheduled to use the vehicle; notify a parking space management system of information indicating the date and time at which the user is scheduled to use the vehicle as information indicating a vacant time at which the parking space is available; and notify a vehicle management system of information indicating the date and time at which the user is not scheduled to use the vehicle as information indicating a vacant time at which the vehicle is available. The user has authority to use a vehicle and authority to use a parking space set to park the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Koichi Suzuki, Katsunori Takami
  • Publication number: 20150054795
    Abstract: A terminal device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory, configured to acquire position information indicating a contact position of an indicator with respect to a touch panel, detect, based on the acquired position information, a preceding contact operation and a succeeding contact operation performed before and after a non-contact period with respect to the touch panel, and determine that the preceding contact operation and the succeeding contact operation are one continuous operation when an elapsed time and a positional interval satisfy a given condition, the elapsed time being from finish of the preceding contact operation being detected until start of the succeeding contact operation being detected, and the positional interval being between a finish position at which the finish of the preceding contact operation has been detected and a start position at which the start of the succeeding contact operation has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Inventor: Katsunori TAKAMI
  • Patent number: 8548535
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile communication terminal is equipped with a first control unit for execution a communication, a second control unit for executing an application program, and a timer unit for generating an interrupt signal when a count value equals a timer value set by the first control unit. The second control unit transmits first information including sleep time to the first control unit and changes to a sleep state. The first control unit sets a timer value in the timer unit in response to the first information and transmits to the second control unit second information for waking the second control unit when the interrupt signal is generated by the timer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Mobile Communications Limited
    Inventors: Masataka Kato, Katsunori Takami
  • Patent number: 8351918
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a first communication module, a second communication module, a state management module configured to make an out-of-range notification when a communication state of the first communication module moves out of a communication range, a notification module configured to send a user notification as a notification indicating that the first communication module is disconnected to a user when the out-of-range notification is received, a determination module configured to determine whether or not a given process for the user notification is completed, a setting module configured to perform setting indicating that the process for the user notification is completed to the state management module when the determination module determines that the process is completed, and a communication prohibition module for prohibiting the data communication by the second communication module until the setting indicating that the process is completed is performed after the communication state of the first co
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Limited
    Inventor: Katsunori Takami
  • Publication number: 20110183727
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a mobile communication terminal is equipped with a first control unit for execution a communication, a second control unit for executing an application program, and a timer unit for generating an interrupt signal when a count value equals a timer value set by the first control unit. The second control unit transmits first information including sleep time to the first control unit and changes to a sleep state. The first control unit sets a timer value in the timer unit in response to the first information and transmits to the second control unit second information for waking the second control unit when the interrupt signal is generated by the timer unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2010
    Publication date: July 28, 2011
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Masataka KATO, Katsunori Takami
  • Publication number: 20100173623
    Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a first communication module, a second communication module, a state management module configured to make an out-of-range notification when a communication state of the first communication module moves out of a communication range, a notification module configured to send a user notification as a notification indicating that the first communication module is disconnected to a user when the out-of-range notification is received, a determination module configured to determine whether or not a given process for the user notification is completed, a setting module configured to perform setting indicating that the process for the user notification is completed to the state management module when the determination module determines that the process is completed, and a communication prohibition module for prohibiting the data communication by the second communication module until the setting indicating that the process is completed is performed after the communication state of the first co
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventor: Katsunori TAKAMI
  • Publication number: 20100120472
    Abstract: A mobile terminal provided with a predetermined input device includes a first set unit configured to set a key code of the input device designated by the active program, a first memory unit configured to store a predetermined key code of the input device, and an execution unit configured to executes a process based on the key code of the input device that is set by the first set unit when the event of the input device occurs, and executes the process based on the key code stored in the first memory unit when the key code of the input device is not set by the first set unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2009
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Katsunori Takami, Tosaku Tanada
  • Publication number: 20050183086
    Abstract: According to a method for managing a task, attributions of first to nth function task groups for executing one function respectively are stored in an attribution storage unit of the function task group, and according to the attribution stored in the attribution storage unit of the function task group, a function task group managing unit assigns a resource to the task belonging to the first to nth function task groups and executes the operation with related to an interruption caused during execution of the task belonging to the first to nth function task groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Applicant: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Abe, Katsunori Takami, Akira Imai